A bloody love letter to slasher fans, it's everything I never knew I needed in a horror novel."-Gwendolyn Kiste, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Rust Maiden s "Brutal, beautiful, and unforgettable, My Heart Is a Chainsaw is a visceral ride from start to finish. You don't have to be a slasher fan to read My Heart is a Chainsaw, but I guarantee that you will be after you read it."-Alma Katsu, author of The Deep and The Hunger "A homage to slasher films that also manages to defy and transcend genre. He makes me feel like an amateur."-Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author of The Final Girl Support Group "Stephen's writing is a chainsaw and every sentence in this book drips with blood, every paragraph is clotted with skin, and every period is a bullethole. * “This extraordinary novel is an essential purchase.”-Kirkus, Starred Review * “Horror fans be blown away by this audacious extravaganza.”-Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
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THAT is the kind of stuff I love in my books. The emotions were so high and intense sometimes, but they still made sense. Somehow the author managed to portray the complex emotions in a natural way and get me to sympathize with all the characters on all sides of the conflict. It went beyond cookie cutter emotions and obstacles and became a web of pain and anger and grief all interconnected with inner demons and the effects the past were having on the characters in their present situations. About halfway in, the characters, their problems, their relationships, and their emotions really started getting deep and rich and complicated. The first half of the book had more issues that I’ll get into below, but the further I got into the book, the harder it got to put down. So this is going to be longer and a little more rant-y than my usual reviews, but it’s not all bad, I promise. There were some things the author did incredibly well that really sucked me into the story and made it a worthwhile read, but there were some things that weren’t quite as well done and really bothered me. I have very conflicting feelings about this novel. The biggest concern for a pregnancy in space would be whether a fetus's development would be affected by microgravity, said planetary scientist Tanya Harrison. He says that much remains unknown about what conceiving in space might do to a pregnancy - and as more people take to the stars, that needs to be studied thoroughly.īlue Origin's New Shepard rocket launches carrying passengers Jeff Bezos and others from its spaceport near Van Horn, Texas, in July 2021. He worked with a team of scientists and clinicians to produce a research paper titled, Sex in Space: Consideration of uncontrolled human conception in emerging space tourism. 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Having taught at Brown, MIT, and Pratt Institute, Jackson is currently a lecturer in the MFA Writing Program at NYU. She was named a Village Voice “Writer on the Verge” and is the recipient of the Pushcart Prize and a Howard Foundation grant. Jackson received an AB in art from Stanford University and an MFA in creative writing from Brown University. Shelley Jackson (b.1963 in the Philippines) is a New York-based writer and artist. What happens when the rigid soldier begins to lose his grip on his heart and soon Nora’s brilliant, headstrong ways are throwing his carefully controlled life into chaos. Determined to prove her skills, Nora promises to save the duchess in exchange for Con keeping her secret. Furious at the deception, he vows to reveal her secrets. only to discover that the venerable doctor he expected is a bold and lovely charlatan. But when the man shows up on her doorstep, he is nothing like she expected-he is a young, handsome heir to a dukedom who suddenly threatens everything she holds dear.Ĭonstantine Sinclair arrives on the Langley doorstep in a desperate bid to save the woman who raised him, the Duchess of Birchwood. She corresponds with people all over the world, including an old army colonel. She doesn’t care about love.ĭespite being surrounded by her happily wed sisters, Nora Langley prefers botany to ballrooms and would rather spend a lifetime in her laboratory than consider affairs of the heart. An expert herbalist, Nora has been masquerading as her late physician father for years, dispensing invaluable medical advice. New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Sophie Jordan continues her bestselling Rogue Files series with this captivating romance that will thrill her many fans. He studies writing in Provincetown, Massachusetts at the Fine Art Work Center under such greats as Michael Cunningham, Richard McCann, Allan Gurganus, Peter Ho Davies, Michael Klein, Elizabeth McCracken, and Jacqueline Woodson. He received a master’s in guidance and counseling from Old Dominion University and has worked with many families in the US and overseas in addition to his work as a writer. He was born in Mexico City to parents of German and Cuban descent and moved to Texas as a child. His most recent work The Greatest Superpower (2021) is about twin boys whose dad comes out as transgender. Sanchez also collaborated with DC comics and illustrator Jul Maroh on You Brought Me the Ocean, which is a reimagining of the story of Aqualad for a modern teen audience. Happy Birthday, Alex Sanchez! Sanchez is a Mexican American author who has written the award winning young adult books Rainbows Boys and Getting It, as well as a middle grade novel So Hard to Say. Apmarks author Alex Sanchez’s 65th year on the planet. one of the best collections that I've ever read' Goodreads reviewer, 'This book contains a brilliant collection of short stories, all of them highlighting Reynolds' great imaginative powers and his first-class worldbuilding' Goodreads reviewer, 'These stories of his are SO COOL. I'm impressed - this is good stuff!' Goodreads reviewer, 'Reynolds is at his best. Readers are hooked on Alastair Reynolds' short stories: 'This collection was my first introduction to Alastair Reynolds' work. One of the most thought-provoking and accomplished short-fiction writers of our time, this collection is a delight for all SF readers. Alastair Reynolds has won the Sidewise Award and been nominated for The Hugo Awards for his short fiction. This is an amazing collection of some of the best short fiction ever written in the SF genre, by an author acclaimed as 'the mastersinger of space opera' The Times This collection includes ZIMA BLUE, one of the standout episodes in Netflix's LOVE, DEATH AND ROBOTS With an introduction by noted SF critic Johnathan Strahan, this collection of twenty short stories, novellettes and novellas includes ZIMA BLUE, one of the standout shorts in Netflix's LOVE, DEATH AND ROBOTS, as well as MINLA'S FLOWERS, SIGNAL TO NOISE, TROIKA, and seven previous uncollected stories, including TRAUMA POD, THE WATER THIEF and IN BABELSBERG. After being cast out of his pack by a selfish tyrant of a True Alpha who should have mentored Jeremy, he finds himself as a lone wolf in True Alpha Transition, complete with overactive emotions and unexplainable feelings. And even though the meeting was awkward and uncomfortable, Tim finds himself drawn to the young True Alpha in ways that he cannot understand. While out celebrating the promotion, Tim and his colleagues encounter a young werewolf transitioning from a mid-pack werewolf to a True Alpha. Upon his arrival stateside from Afghanistan, newly promoted Major Tim Madison, along with his friends and fellow officers Lucas and Noah, has been tasked with re-writing the military handbook regarding werewolves, their culture, and their rules and structure. In this, and in his 1993 analysis, Māori: The Crisis and the Challenge, he has developed his ideas on the failures of Māoridom, castigating both the traditional leadership and the radical movement for dwelling on the injustices of the past and expecting others to resolve them, instead of encouraging Māori to get on and help themselves. He was also awarded the Frank Sargeson Fellowship in 1991, and began writing a weekly - later bi-weekly - column for the Evening Post (Wellington newspaper), syndicated to eight other newspapers. It was winner of the PEN Best First Book Award, was runner-up in the Goodman Fielder Wattie Award, and was made into the award-winning film of the same name in 1994.Īnother of his novels, One Night Out Stealing, appeared in 1991 and shortlisted in the 1992 Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Awards. The novel is written in juxtaposed interior monologues, making its style stand out from other works. He burned the manuscript and started writing Once Were Warriors, which had an immediate and great impact. He tried writing a thriller as his first novel, but it was rejected. Alan Duff (born October 26, 1950, Rotorua, New Zealand) is a New Zealand novelist and newspaper columnist, most well known as the author of Once Were Warriors. Wells, perhaps best known for science fiction masterpieces such as The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds, wrote across many genres including satire, history, and social commentary. In the early 1900s, Wells published The Country of the Blind and Other Short Stories which showcased his talent with the short form in science fiction, the spiritual realm, the human condition, and creepy occurrences in the seemingly "real" world. The stories in this volume are of the latter sort – just hair-raising enough that after listening to them you may look twice when something catches your eye from the sky above you, in the water around you, or on the ground beneath your feet. Copyright 2021 W. Wells. Carefully curated from Wells’s more than 30 short stories, the selections you’ll hear in this volume are: In the Avu Observatory, The Valley of Spiders, and The Sea Raiders.H.G. 2 (of 2) by Origen (272) The Time Machine by H. Flying beasties, swimming beasties, creepy crawly leggy beasties – you’ll find them all in this delightfully suspenseful, subtly spine-tingling collection of three short stories written by the illustrious H.G. 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